The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-02-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE debt Of Canada is $500, 600.
RAspBERRiEs are ripe in Placer County,
Cal.
A SOUTHERN fur company wants loO,ON
cats.
A coAL-BLAcK deer has been seen near
Chico, Cal.
NoKwicn, Conn, has . family named
Skeesucks.
THERE are 6,o33 Grand Army posts in the
United States.
WoLr-scALp legislation Is engaging the
Dakota salons.
A hill in the Texas Lie gislature proposes
10 outlaw bar bills.
BAKER County, Ore, is larger than any
New England State.
MASON BEr is now the only American In
the Egyptian service.
ILLIN Is Is not only out OF debt but has
$50, 600 in its treasury.
A SPANIARD has turned the whole Bible
into poetry, 2GO, 900 stanzas.
GENERAL PLEAsANToN was in los battles,
but never received wound.
A COAL train OF eighteen cars was blown
from the track near Denver, Col
The br siness Of the United States
Supreme Court is four years behind.
A SON Of Kit Carson resides in Los An
geles, and Is struggling with poverty.
ARKANSAS proposes to raise the price
OF her State bonds and wipe out the State
debt.
The Chinese claim to have used natural
gas in the manufacture OF terra Gotta long,
long ago.
IT Is said that the area of winter wheat
is decreasing and the area Of spring wheat
increasing.
Six gunnery instructors have been lent
to the Chinese Government by the British
Admiralty.
A SANpusKy man tipped up trade dol
lar, which descended into pct dog, agape
at the time.
A n1GA-LICENsE bill has been introduced
in the Minnesota Legislature. 1t fixes the
license at l,0O0.
THE entire Okefinokee swamp. in Geor
gia and Florida, can be bought for about
ten cents per acre.
'CoAL Oil JOHNNIE" STEELE, once mil
lionaire, is now in Jail as a vagrant at
Mount Holly, N. j.
DANIEL DouGHERTY, the Philadelphia
lawyer, has declined to act as counsel for
the Chicago Anarchists.
THE Missouri Legislature will try its fine
Italian hand at the bill for the suppression
of Pinkerton detectives.
POLICEMEN and fremen in New York re-
ceived over half million dollars from the
city as pension last year.
TEXAS contemplatcs placing 100000
acres Of her university lands III the hands
of agents for sale or lease.
GOVERNOR PIERCE, of Dakota, rendered
his resignation to the President which was
accepted to take effect at once.
The Kansas Legislature is wrestling
with capital removal scheme. 1t is to
take it any where out Of Topeka.
THE Car has paid $500. 600 for he famous
Galitzin collection of painting gs for the Her.
mitage gallery at st. Petersburg.
The owner of the Miller car.counler has
begun suit for infringement AGAINST the
Pennsylvania railroad for $500, 900.
THE New York State Senate has passed
the bill to make Septcmber q legal holi.
day, to be known as Labor dav.n
THE Dakota Legislature continues to
make war on the railroads. They want
railways assessed as individuals are.
THE great bronze door of the east front
entrance of the rotunda of the Capitol
weighs 10000 pounds, and cost s2S, 600.
A MARSH near Cane Nav. N. J.. is being
searched for CAPTAIN Kidd,s supposed
buried treasures by some people of that
city.
THEY have a toboppan slide at bismarck
d. T.. where it is SAID the steel.sbod IN.
boppans acou;re n ve,oc;tv of threa m;,es
minute.
TIE appronriations mazda nv Con,ress
from ,sOo tn date for tho eroction on5 ro'
modelling of the Canitol amount N over
S5,OOOSOO.
RECENT visitors 10 General Sam. Hons.
TOMS grave, at Huntsville. Texas. could
with dif13culty find it. as It ia overprown
with weeds.
ACCORDING to recent English experi.
ments it is found that a growth of ivv over
house renders the interior entirely free
from moisture.
DIR. TUCKER, of Brooklyn, paid s975 for
first choice Of the pews in Talmage's
church, selecting the same one for which
ne paid s76o last year.
AFTER an absence Of two years and nine
days pet squirrel returned to Daniel Dan.
ner' OF mattison, Men, and took up its
quarters IN us o1a cage.
hikAM eisLLI, 'ne wealthy scotsman OF
noches'er' N. H. is ABOUT 10 give ssoooN
70 Corheli University 10 enlarge the Sieiey
.ohege Oh Mochanic Arts.
CRIMINAL was oailea out IN New Yors
.r o a' wv ~" no mou,"A ooa nave
VIC PfoecsS fcPeSVcu ior $l,VVV. IL was